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A crash course in changing the world.
No bees, no honey
The world it's not really a complex place.
In fact, it's a very simple organism.
It's simple because, there is really just one rule.
And this rule is, that everything in this world is connected.
Unfortunately people in the real life are a little short-sighted. They see just some connections, usually the ones with just a short term benefits. Like doing someone a favor, because then he'll owe you one or by putting a lot of artificial fertilizer because then these year crop will be richer.
I feel that people are so short sighed because our culture teaches and awards us to be like this. We learn to look and solve problems just from antrophocentic perspective. That means, that we judge and value the wh*** world just from human stand point. We rarely ask ourselves if our actions will be also good for future generations and almost never how our actions impact the other living beings and Earth itself.
So, solving the problem of food security it's not really about finding the new and improved innovations in farming. It is first and foremost about changing the perspective about how we take care of Mother Earth. If I use the well known saying it's about strengthening the weakest link in the chain, not finding solutions to make
strong (or superiors) links even stronger.
A good local example is a growing problem with massive honeybee deaths in Slovenia. First scientist had no real explanation what caused these huge catastrophic death of bee colonies and then they finally realized that they died from pesticide poisoning.
In farming bees are essential for pollinating the plants.
Paradoxically these plants farmers "watered" with pesticides.
So the circle is complete.
By trying to have even richer crops, farmers with their short sighed ideas in
the process exterminated the weakest, yet essential link in the chain.
So the world is really not a complex place.
You just have to be aware that everything is connected.
No bees, no honey ... no food security.
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Comment by John Tsangaris on March 12, 2010 at 12:47am
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Great post! I recently learned about Mason bees. They are not so queen oriented (all females breed) and do not have a central hive, but generally congregate together. They do not make honey either. BUT, they seem to be immune to whatever is happening to regular bees and they still help with pollination. I have been wanting to study more about them, but have not had the chance.
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Comment by Brian Ballsun-Stanton on March 12, 2010 at 10:32am
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Have you found any recent news about the bee problem? (I'd love links.) when I was in the states there were occasional news articles on it, but nothing since I moved to Oz.
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Comment by Elastika on March 12, 2010 at 6:15pm
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@John: I'll google up this mason bee. Very interesting.
@Brian: Now, in the winter time bees are asleep here, so no recent news.
I hope that this year farmers already learned their lesson.
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Comment by MoE on March 15, 2010 at 5:26am
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Interesting post, as I could expect from somebody taking the holistic approach to the global natural system; and then you're a C2C one! :)
But I can't resist from saying that I do not agree with your sentence: "the world is really not a complex place".
I see and share what I believe is the feeling which generates it but I'd say, on the contrary, that "the world is an exquisitely complex place".
I mean that the rules which run it are very simple, but when applied to every living form in every part of the globe, those rules produce an emerging, beautiful, interconnected complexity. As a designer I do make distinctions between the terms "complex", which means highly structured but coming from simple rules, and "complicated" which, well, just means complicated :)
just to share, hope I didn't bothered...
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nice upgrade ste :)
simple rules building complex environments ... like that ...
PS: one of the best year of Ars Electronica festival I had attended was in 2006. It was called Simplicity - the Art of Complexity: http://www.aec.at/press_kit_detail_en.php?id=180 Interesting stuff ...
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Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on March 16, 2010 at 5:56pm
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I heart bees
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Comment by PJE on March 22, 2010 at 5:28pm
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I'd love to keep bees. There are lots just over my fence in the forest, about 12 neat little hives and the honey is lovely.
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